[Suggestion]: Version tagging on Github

[inoculator]

Related command
n/a

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
no

Describe the solution you'd like
use 'tag_name" in GitHub API with real version that is replied by application response

Describe alternatives you've considered
n/a

Additional context
You can easily query an installed version by just running 'az version'.
You get a version compatible number as return value under "azure-cli" (e.g. "2.76.0")
It would now be easy to compare that value with GitHub API on ../release/latest/tag_name but unfortunately the maintainers add some irrelevant characters: "azure-cli-2.76.0"
Of course you can now argue, that I just need to strip that static string, but please scale it up and check other projects, like Azure Studio or Visual Code. In there they provide proper version only.
Would be great to have such tiny things staightend for automation convinience.

[azure-client-tools-bot-prd]

Hi @inoculator,

2.76.0 is not the latest Azure CLI(2.77.0).

If you haven't already attempted to do so, please upgrade to the latest Azure CLI version by following https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/update-azure-cli.

[yonzhan]

Thank you for opening this issue, we will look into it.

[jiasli]

@inoculator, thank you for the good suggestion.

I called the Get the latest release API and saw the field you were mentioning:

$ curl https://api.github.com/repos/azure/azure-cli/releases/latest
{
  ...
  "tag_name": "azure-cli-2.77.0",

I believe the reason why tags are named like azure-cli-2.77.0 is because long ago, this repo contains different packages for different command modules, such as azure-cli-vm:

Even today, https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python repo still follows this approach:

Stopping tagging with azure-cli- prefix may cause unexpected result.

We will discuss internally whether we want to add a version-only tag, such as 2.77.0.

[jiasli]

As discussed internally, we will not change the tag name as it may cause unexpected result to other users who are already relying on it.